Jamie Zawinski Quotes
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
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I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.
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It helps to write as the character that I am trying to be, and try to journal every day as them. Once I've already recorded thoughts as this person, it's easier to just flip back through and be like, 'Oh, yeah, this is what she's thinking; this is what she's feeling.'
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Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?
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Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.
